Supreme Court Collegium recommends transfer of 14 High Court Judges
The Collegium led by CJI B.R. Gavai made the transfer/repatriation recommendations in meetings held on 25/26-8-2025.
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‘Professors are intellectual backbone of any nation’; SC asks Gujarat Govt to rationalize pay structure of contractual Assistant Professors
The Court found it disturbing that Assistant professors appointed on contractual basis during 2011 to 2025 continued to draw monthly salary of Rs. 30,000.
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Simple blow with a school bag without evidence of deliberate maltreatment, doesn’t satisfy ingredients of Child Abuse: SC
“The offence of “child abuse” cannot be attracted to every trivial or isolated incident involving a child, but must necessarily co-relate with acts involving cruelty, exploitation, deliberate ill-treatment, or conduct intended to cause harm”.
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Supreme Court Collegium recommends appointment of 9 Permanent Judges for 2 High Courts
The Collegium recommended appointing 6 Permanent Judges for Bombay High Court and 3 Permanent Judges for Kerala High Court.
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Supreme Court Collegium recommends Justice Shree Chandrashekhar as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
Justice Shree Chandrashekhar’s parent High Court is Jharkhand High Court. He was thereafter transferred to Rajasthan High Court and then to Bombay High Court,
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Supreme Court Collegium recommends appointment of 2 High Court Chief Justices as Judges of the Supreme Court
At present, the working strength of the Supreme Court is at 32 Judges, if the recommendations are confirmed, then the Court will function at its full strength of 34 Judges.
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‘Attending meetings of organisation not banned under UAPA isn’t prima facie offence’; SC affirms Karnataka HC’s order granting bail
Karnataka High Court had granted bail to one accused after finding that he was associated with organisations not banned under UAPA; however, the 2nd accused person’s bail was rejected as he was involved with banned terror outfits.
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Inside Supreme Court decision to cancel bail granted to actor Darshan & other accused persons in Renukaswamy murder case
“Article 14 of the Constitution guarantees equality before the law and prohibits arbitrariness. It mandates that all persons — regardless of their popularity, power, or privilege — are equally subject to the law”.
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CCPA imposes Rs 10 Lakhs penalty on Rapido for its ‘Guaranteed Auto’ & ‘Auto in 5 min or get ₹ 50’ Advertisements
“Rapido had engaged in a practice calculated to mislead consumers by both commission and omission overstating its actual service capability while concealing qualifying conditions for the purpose of promoting its business”.
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Supreme Court directs Maharashtra Govt to stop inhuman practice of plying hand pulled rickshaws in Matheran within 6 Months
The Court opined that continuing such an inhuman practice even after 78 years of the country getting its freedom and after 75 years of the Constitution being enacted and promising social and economic justice to its citizens, would be betraying the promise given by the people of India to themselves.
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“State cannot balance budgets on daily wage earners’ backs”; Supreme Court Orders full regularisation of Class III & IV employees’ posts & financial benefits
“Ad-hocism thrives where administration is opaque and the State Departments must keep and produce accurate establishment registers, muster rolls and outsourcing arrangements, and must explain, with evidence, why they prefer precarious engagement over sanctioned posts where the work is perennial”.
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Supreme Court Collegium recommends 17 names for appointments in 2 High Courts
On 19-8-2025, the Collegium recommended 3 Judges as Permanent & Additional Judges of Gauhati High Court and 14 Advocates as Judges of Bombay High Court.
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President appoints Judicial Officer Ramesh Kumari as Additional Judge of Punjab & Haryana HC
On 7-8-2025, the Supreme Court Collegium led by CJI B.R. Gavai, recommended the appointment of Ramesh Kumari, Judicial Officer, as a High Court Additional Judge.
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Applicability of Limitation Act, 1963 is subject to provisions of the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act: Supreme Court
“The compliance as required to be done by the tenant in Section 7(1)(a)(b)(c) and first part of Section 7(2) of the WBPT Act regarding deposit of rent and filing an application within the same time is mandatory”.
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SC pushes for POSH Act Compliance; directs District-wise survey on constitution of Internal Complaints Committee
“It is the duty of an employer to ensure that in a workplace an Internal Complaints Committee is constituted in terms of Section 4 of the POSH Act. It is hence the responsibility of the Labour Department to ensure that the Internal Complaints Committee is constituted by every employer of a workplace”.
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Petition can’t be transferred from one State High Court to another merely because it involves a political figure: Supreme Court
The Court clarified that Supreme Court has no administrative control over the administration of the High Court or the Judges of the High Court. The Court firmly stated that High Court Judges are also Constitutional functionaries, and they enjoy the same immunity as is enjoyed by a Judge of the Supreme Court.
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Whether a non-signatory to an agreement can be allowed to remain present in arbitration proceedings? Supreme Court Answers
The Court pointed out that Section 35 of the A&C Act, 1996 clearly states that an arbitral award will only bind parties to the arbitration and persons claiming under the said parties.
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Centre notifies appointment of 3 Advocates as Additional Judges of Bombay High Court
Supreme Court Collegium on 28-7-2025 had recommended names of the Advocates to be appointed as High Court Judges.
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5-Judge Constitution Bench to decide issues related to appointment of Judicial Officers as District Judges
In Dheeraj Mor v. High Court of Delhi, (2020) 7 SCC 401 it was held that the members of the Judicial Service of a State could be appointed as District Judges either by way of promotion or via Limited Departmental Competitive Examination.
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Judge Advocate General Recruitment | Executive can’t restrict number of women candidates/ reserve posts for men under the guise of ‘extent of induction’: SC
“Notification dated 18-1-2023 for the JAG Scheme providing only 3 vacancies for female candidates as against 6 vacancies for male candidates is against the concept of equality as enshrined in the Constitution”.
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